Bait — William Vance

Harry Ransome's fantastic deals were the talk of the town... what the town didn't know was that Melody Frane, whom he had plucked out of a weed-ridden hovel and turned into a very fair lady, was his special concession in contract closings. Business boomed and Melody's life became a lust-filled nightmare of demeaning demands and drunken revels. Kenney Ward, company pilot, offered her the one chance to escape her sex-scorched life, but Ransome wasn't about to give up his meal ticket. It was then that his cruel plan to make her remain with him began to take shape.